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1957

Formula One Legends: World Championship 1957

The 1957 Formula One season.

As Formula One already shown, every winter there’s a complete re-shuffle of all the previous year set up and there’s no contract set in stone.

The 8th season saw Fangio, looking for his 5th title, changing again car, moving to Maserati. Stirling Moss was replaced by the argentinian and a new team, Vanwall welcomed the British talented driver.

The two drivers dominated the championship, missing only the US race again which went to Pat Flaherty. Juan Manuel, with one victory more of Stirling won the championship: his fourth in a row and fifth in total and decided that for him that was enough.

Grand Prix

Date

Winning Driver

Team

Laps

Time

Argentina

13/01/1957

Juan Manuel Fangio

Maserati

100

3:00’55.9

Monaco

19/05/1957

Juan Manuel Fangio

Maserati

105

3:10’12.8

Indianapolis 500

30/05/1957

Sam Hanks

Epperly

200

3:41’14.25

France

07/07/1957

Juan Manuel Fangio

Maserati

77

3:07’46.4

Great Britain

20/07/1957

Stirling Moss

Vanwall

90

3:06’37.8

Germany

04/08/1957

Juan Manuel Fangio

Maserati

22

3:30’38.3

Pescara

18/08/1957

Stirling Moss

Vanwall

18

2:59’22.7

Italy

08/09/1957

Stirling Moss

Vanwall

87

2:35’03.9

At the end of the year Fangio announced to leave F1 races and the same did Maserati, probably for financial reasons.

Final Championship Classification

Pos.

Driver

Pts.

1

Juan Manuel Fangio

40 (46)

2

Stirling Moss

25

3

Luigi Musso

16

4

Mike Hawthorn

13

5

Tony Brooks

11

6

Masten Gregory

10

7

Harry Schell

10

8

Sam Hanks

8

9

Peter Collins

8

10

Jim Rathmann

7

1957 was also concluding the experience of the point system with shared drivers.